A weak disturbance in the Gulf will stay south of us

Tropical Storm Humberto set to move away from US, strengthen to hurricane

Author:
Your Local Weather Experts

Published:
2:53 PM CDT May 25, 2016

Updated:
10:29 PM CDT September 14, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — A stronger Tropical Storm Humberto is north of the Bahamas and will turn eastward away from the Florida coast soon. It is forecast to become a hurricane by late Sunday or Monday as it moves out over the Atlantic toward Bermuda.

Closer to the NOLA area, an upper low south of our coastline will spread a few showers into our area this weekend. It has also sparked a disturbance in the eastern Gulf. The National Hurricane Center now gives that disturbance a 20% chance for development as it moves west across the Gulf toward the Texas coast by Monday and Tuesday. A big blocking high will keep our weather hot and mainly dry as the disturbance passes to our south, so we're not expecting any big impacts from it at this point.

We are watching one more wave in the tropical Atlantic, but it is far away and will not threaten our area anytime soon, if at all.

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